Web design in Swansea
We are not in Swansea. SH Studios is two people in England, one in Hampshire and one in Cheshire, and we work with Welsh businesses by phone, video call and WhatsApp. You do not have to trust that blind. We build your site first, you see it before you pay a penny, and you only go ahead when it feels like yours. Welsh as well as English is fine; just tell us at the start.
Most sites we replace in Swansea are slow, five years old, and built on a template the owner cannot edit. We write ours from scratch so there is nothing to bloat it.
A website that does one job: get the phone to ring
This is the whole job, written down so you can hold us to it.
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
- Every page written by hand, so it loads in under two seconds on 4G
- Photos of your own work, sized properly so they do not crawl on mobile
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
The Swansea businesses we build for most
Swansea has a city side and a holiday side. The city runs from the centre out through Uplands, Sketty and Morriston, with the Enterprise Park and Fforestfach holding the trade units. The holiday side is Mumbles and Gower, where the Welsh holiday-let rules matter most.
Holiday lets and self-catering
Since April 2023, a self-catering property in Wales has to be available to let for 252 days a year and actually let for 182 to be rated as a business rather than paying council tax, and Swansea charges a premium on second homes. For owners in Mumbles and Gower, every direct booking counts. A site that takes bookings itself, without a platform taking a cut, helps with both the numbers and the margins.
Trades from the Enterprise Park and Fforestfach
Swansea Enterprise Park at Llansamlet was the first enterprise zone in the UK, and Swansea West Business Park at Fforestfach holds another cluster of units. Plenty of trades run their vans from one or the other. Customers can be anywhere from Gorseinon to the far end of Gower, so your site needs to be clear about where you go.
Cafes, salons and shops in Uplands and Mumbles
Uplands and Sketty have their own independent streets, and Mumbles has a seafront full of cafes, restaurants and shops that live off visitors as well as locals. Those businesses need a site that works on a phone for someone standing on the prom, with opening hours, a menu or price list, and a way to book.
More on this: websites for barbers and salons and websites for shops.
What you are actually up against in Swansea
A search for a trade in Swansea usually shows the map box, then the directories, then the firms. For holiday lets, the results are dominated by the big booking platforms, which charge a fee on every stay. For many owners in Mumbles and Gower, the only direct route to a guest is a repeat visitor who remembers the name.
A site of your own changes that. Guests who stayed once can book again without a platform in the middle, and new guests who find you on a platform can check you out and book direct next time. With the Welsh occupancy rules in place, owning some of your own bookings is not just about the fees. It is about keeping the let viable.
Who we have actually built for near Swansea
Fair question on a page like this: have we actually done any of it near here. Here is the closest live client to Swansea we can put a name to.
Pure Luxe Cleaning, Newport, Cardiff & Bristol
Premium, detail-focused interior cleaning across four cities. Gold on noir to sell the 'detail is our signature' promise, with its own landing page for Newport, Cwmbran, Cardiff and Bristol, plus pages for deep cleans, ovens, end-of-tenancy turnarounds and house clearance. Every one routes into a single quote form.
Newport is 41 miles from Swansea in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at pureluxecleaning.uk. We built it first and they paid after.
If that one is not close enough to what you do, our work page lists the rest with the town each is in. Only signed, live jobs are listed there as clients, and every concept build is labelled as a concept.
Where we work around Swansea
We are not local to Swansea. These are the areas a Swansea business site usually needs to name.
- Swansea city centre and the Marina
- Uplands and Sketty
- Mumbles and the Gower peninsula
- Morriston and Llansamlet
- Fforestfach and the west of the city
- Gorseinon and the SA4 side
Web Design in Swansea: three questions we get asked
How long until it is live?
You see a real preview of your own site inside 48 hours. From the point you say yes, a small site is usually live inside a week, and most of that week is waiting on your photos and your domain login rather than on us.
Will it work properly on a phone?
It is built for the phone first, because that is where people look a business up. Every page is written by hand, so there is no page builder weighing it down, and your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form sit on every screen.
I run a holiday let in Gower. Can a website really help me hit 182 nights?
It can help, and it gives you some control. Guests who book through your own site do not pay a platform fee, and you can offer them a reason to come back. Past guests are the easiest bookings to get, and a site gives them somewhere to go. We build the booking side so it takes dates and payment, and it sits alongside any platforms you already use. It will not fill the calendar on its own, but it is a start you own.
Where Swansea is from us
Swansea is in the SA postcode area, 120 miles north-west of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Cardiff is the closest town to Swansea that we also cover, 34 miles away, then Newport at 41 miles.
- Web Design in Cardiff, 34 miles east
- Web Design in Newport, 41 miles east
- Web Design in Bristol, 59 miles east
- Free audit of the site you have now
Get a free preview for your Swansea business
Your name, your business and a way to reach you. We build a real preview of your site inside 48 hours, and you see it before you pay anything.
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